The next meeting of the Yorkshire Palaeo Group is on Wednesday 15th November and it looks like an interesting lineup. Might be still time to submit a presentation so contact Simon Hutchinson if you’re interested. Check out the YPG website for up to date info:

https://sites.google.com/view/yorkspalaeogroup

Programme (provisional)

14:00 – 14:10 Simon Hutchinson (University of Salford) Welcome and organisation

14:10 – 14:30 Tom Dwyer (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) Applied palaeozoology / zooarchaeology and the use of historical baselines for use in conservation and wider Quaternary research.

14:30 – 14:50 Chris Hunt (Liverpool John Moores University) Re-evaluation of the palynology of the Shanidar 4 Neanderthal ‘flower burial’

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15:05 – 15:25 Ioana Meleg (Emil G. Racoviță Institute for the Study of Life in Extreme Conditions, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Exploring ancient biomolecules and cave sediment sequences for spatio-temporal palaeodynamics

15:25 -15:35 Jessica Gauld (University of Manchester) Palaeoecology and Peatland Restoration: Embedding the Practitioners’ Perspective

15:35 – 15:45 Eline van Asperen (Newcastle University) Environmental change and evidence of mining and metallurgy in a pollen core from Alston Moor

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16:00 – 16:20 Kristen Beck (University of Lincoln) Wildfire impacts on freshwater ecosystems in Canada

16:20 – 16:30 Simon Hutchinson (University of Salford) Final discussion Plans for YPG meetings in 2024